Three weeks ago we started a basic
game about famous quotes about languages and the learning of languages
entitled: "Looking for the best quote about languages and their
learning". It was simply to choose the best quote about this theme from those
that were shown in the article (if you haven't read the article we invite you
to do so right now!) As we said, it's something that we are very passionate about, famous quotes
about languages and the learning of them, because as you can see in the list of
quotes from the article, there are some marvellous quotes that really make you
think. And now we have a winner!(The
photo above might give you some clue!) There were teachers and members of Tía
Tula staff, students of the school, writers of this blog and some of our
followers on the Tía Tula Facebook that had voted
in this game, thank you for your contributions!
To pay tribute to the second and
third place quotes, which may be less well known, but for some hold a greater
meaning, here is the top three quotes!
1. “If you talk to a man in a language he
understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that
goes to his heart” - (Nelson Mandela, South African politician and Nobel Peace Prize
laureate in 1993)
2. “To learn a language is to have one more
window from which to look at the world” – (Chinese proverb)
3. “Speak a new language so that the world
will be a new world” – (Jalaluddin Rumi, Persian poet)
The winner, the Mandela quote, was
the clear favourite from the start. The truth is that it swept the floor with
votes with a great distance between first and second place. As is well known by
everyone, Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) was an activist, a lawyer and a South African politician in the twentieth
and twenty first centuries, though the main reason people know him is due to
his peaceful fight against racial segregation. He was the first black prime minister of the republic of South Africa (1994
and 1999). He established a democratic political model for his country and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work
against racism in 1993. In his quote Madiba-a
nickname he was known as by many in his country which has now become a
fashionable way to refer to him- he speaks to us about the power that words possess,
and how that power is multiplied when you know a language of a different
culture. Power that in one way you feel in your heart directly, power of communication
without filters or barriers. A beautiful and brilliant way of thinking that creates cause to reflect.
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